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Borderline personality disorder

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borderline personality disorder
personality disorder characterized by variability of moods and unstable relationships
victim blaming
social phenomenon that responsabilizes the victim of the damage suffered
dissociation
mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience
psychological projection
a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities
dialectical behavior therapy
evidence-based psychotherapy designed to help people with emotional dysregulation such as in borderline personality disorder
emptiness
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codependency
In psychology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior, such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.
passive–aggressive behavior
indirect expression of hostility
reactive attachment disorder
severe and relatively uncommon disorder that can affect children
emotional dysregulation
difficulty controlling and moderating one's emotional reactions
self-hatred
Self-hatred is a state of personal self-loathing or low self-esteem.
schema therapy
a form of integrative psychotherapy
mood swing
extreme or rapid change in mood
splitting
failure in thought to bring together both positive qualities and negative aspects of people into a cohesive whole
psychological pain
unpleasant feeling of a psychological nature
idealization and devaluation
term
transference focused psychotherapy
form of psychotherapy
mentalization-based treatment
psychotherapy, with aspects of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic and ecological approaches
cognitive analytic therapy
psychological therapy initially developed in the United Kingdom